Category: Ancient History

"The play of phrases" examines the dynamics of interfamilial violence within the Oresteia. It argues that the foremost component of the play's discourse approximately violence is to be present in the inquiry for a definition of Clytemnestra's motherhood. The failure of this study demanding situations the reader with a few open questions: who's Clytemnestra? the place is justice if a mom dies? via examining the play's narrative on interfamilial violence and matricide as a story of uncertainties when it comes to the function of the mum determine, this booklet illustrates the complexity of the maternal function of Clytemnestra. It additionally breaks silence between students, who've regularly portrayed Clytemnestra because the bad mother who kills the kid's father and because the bad wife who betrays her husband.

Julius Caesar's existence and instance have interested and inspired generations of individuals for almost 2,000 years. This ebook explores the folks, locations, occasions, and associations that helped outline arguably the main recognized person within the historical past of Rome.

• provides info on Julius Caesar that prime college scholars, undergraduates, and basic readers will locate obtainable and useful

• offers an encyclopedic scope and extensive insurance in addition to particular, particular specialise in specific issues and issues from Caesar's world

• Relates the relevance of the Roman adventure from millennia in the past to modern day social and political issues

Thinkers on the vanguard in replacement theories on historical past, the origins of civilization, know-how, and realization

• With contributions through Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, Mark sales space, Richard Hoagland, Robert Schoch, John Anthony West, and others

• themes variety from quantum philosophy and paranormal phenomena to the key heritage of NASA, rapid polar shifts, and old Martian civilizations

• Explores the place our current time matches into the cycle of human lifestyles

A revolution of notion is less than manner in our international, fostered by means of many years of study and well-documented proof by means of substitute thought pioneers comparable to Graham Hancock, John Anthony West, Robert Bauval, and Robert Schoch. those provocative, state-of-the-art students now signify an instantaneous problem to the tutorial institution because the paradigms of technological know-how and historical past shift and their rules achieve recognition.

Representing the most recent, usually arguable findings in clinical and historic study, this anthology of essays commissioned by means of Graham Hancock, bestselling writer of Fingerprints of the Gods, covers the leading edge in substitute theories on heritage, the origins of civilization, know-how, and awareness with subject matters starting from quantum philosophy and paranormal phenomena to the traditional use of electromagnetism, the impact of cosmic rays on human evolution, and NASA’s cover-up of old Martian civilizations. spotting that many contemporary discoveries are literally rediscoveries of misplaced wisdom from previous civilizations, those authors search to appreciate the place, in the larger photo of human wisdom, our current time suits into the cycle of human existence.

This quantity assembles students engaged on cuneiform texts from varied classes, genres, and parts to check the variety of social, cultural, and ancient contexts during which particular different types of texts circulated. utilizing varied methodologies and resources of facts, those articles reconstruct the contexts during which numerous cuneiform texts circulated, supplying a serious framework to figure out how they functioned.

Exploiting the considerable fundamental resources to be had, this publication examines the various ways that conflict formed the Hellenistic global.

An evaluation of conflict and society within the Hellenistic world.

Highlights the interdependence of struggle and social phenomena.

Covers quite a lot of issues, together with social stipulations as motives of struggle, the position warriors, the discourse of conflict in Hellenistic towns, the price range of warfare, the collective reminiscence of battle, and the aesthetics of war.

Psalms examines the character of the Psalms as a textual content in English, dealing particularly with the matter of translation and diverse elements of the 'techniques' on analyzing, with relation to conventional ways inside religious study and modern literary thought. Alastair Hunter additionally outlines a programmatic method of interpreting and applies it to a variety of person Psalms.